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XP Home SP2
Get an error when booting that WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTME is missing
or corrupt. This is the HKLM registry hive yes?
Booted from the CD to the Recovery Console and went to
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG. SYSTEM is there and seems a reasonable size,
~3.5MB
Many years ago I screwed the registry on an NT4 machine which, luckily,
dual booted NT3.51 so I booted into 3.51 and manually copied the
registry backup into placed. AFAICR the .SAV files are the backups (as
used when booting Last Known Good) so although SYSTEM.SAV was only ~25%
the size of SYSTEM I copied SYSTEM to C:\ and copied SYSTEM.SAV to
SYSTEM on the XP machine.
When I rebooted (from the HDD) it said "Setup is restarting" and the XP
install screen appeared. I rebooted from the CD and went to the Recovery
Console but now it won't accept a blank password - it worked the first
time as Administrator didn't have a password.
I guess that SYSTEM.SAV is from the original install which is why it
started running setup.
How do I get into the Recovery Console to restore SYSTEM and where are
the registry backups kept in XP? I've searched the KB but the only
likely article is 308402 but that only applies if SysPrep was used,
which it wasn't.
Also, any idea why this file keeps getting corrupted? The guy whose
machine it is has seen this several times and has reinstalled XP each time.
TIA
Regards,
Parish
XP Home SP2
Get an error when booting that WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTME is missing
or corrupt. This is the HKLM registry hive yes?
Booted from the CD to the Recovery Console and went to
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG. SYSTEM is there and seems a reasonable size,
~3.5MB
Many years ago I screwed the registry on an NT4 machine which, luckily,
dual booted NT3.51 so I booted into 3.51 and manually copied the
registry backup into placed. AFAICR the .SAV files are the backups (as
used when booting Last Known Good) so although SYSTEM.SAV was only ~25%
the size of SYSTEM I copied SYSTEM to C:\ and copied SYSTEM.SAV to
SYSTEM on the XP machine.
When I rebooted (from the HDD) it said "Setup is restarting" and the XP
install screen appeared. I rebooted from the CD and went to the Recovery
Console but now it won't accept a blank password - it worked the first
time as Administrator didn't have a password.
I guess that SYSTEM.SAV is from the original install which is why it
started running setup.
How do I get into the Recovery Console to restore SYSTEM and where are
the registry backups kept in XP? I've searched the KB but the only
likely article is 308402 but that only applies if SysPrep was used,
which it wasn't.
Also, any idea why this file keeps getting corrupted? The guy whose
machine it is has seen this several times and has reinstalled XP each time.
TIA
Regards,
Parish